Just two weeks into the season and there's already stiff competition on "America's Got Talent." But 12-year-old Grace VanderWaal won't have to worry about any competition until the live semfinals — because this singer-songwriter just got a golden ticket to the end.

Well, a golden buzzer.

She also got one heck of a comparison.

After Grace performed an original song that left the audience cheering and the panelists stunned, the often gruff and grumbling Simon Cowell heaped on the praise, calling the girl "the next Taylor Swift."